Montana Album: CMR wins first game; new YMCA

ANACONDA – The Russell High School Rustlers, playing their first football game ever, got off on the win side of the ledger here Friday night, downing the Anaconda Copperheads 10-7. The victory fulfilled an adage expressed in the school all week by the student body that “you can’t win them all without winning the first one.” Paul Schafer, left halfback, scored on a 55-yard jaunt off tackle, shaking tacklers all the way behind fine downfield blocking. He also kicked the extra point and booted a 30-yard field goal later in the game.

WASHINGTON – It’s called the new math, but very little of it is less than 100 years old. It has been praised as “intellectually stimulating,” and denounced as “pedantic rubbish.” One thing seems certain: The so-called new math is here to stay as part of the new techniques sweeping U.S. schools to lessen the emphasis on memorization of facts and processes and concentrate more on logic and reason. Some say “modern math” is often little more than a status symbol used by mathematicians to obtain grants, educators to gain prestige and publishers to sell books.

The Charles M. Russell studio and home at 1219 4th Ave. N., adjacent to the Russell Gallery, are under consideration by the National Park Service for possible designation as a National Historical Landmark. A request from Park Service officials for more information about the home, built in 1901, for the cowboy artist reached Great Falls this week through Michael Kennedy, director of the State Historical Society in Helena.

QUI HNON, South Viet Nam – Twenty-thousand U.S. combat troops of the 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile have landed at Qui Nhon on the South China Sea and established a beachhead. The first of four aircraft carriers, six troop ships and ten cargo ships are standing off Qui Nhon’s bay. This action has been described by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara as an entirely new approach in the concept of land war.

LIVINGSTON – Montana city officers proposed Saturday a new source of revenue for their depleted street budgets — a new one-cent tax on gasoline. Cities get no gasoline tax money now. Revenue would be distributed to cities according to local gasoline sales and population.

LOS ANGELES – Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game Thursday night in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs and became the first pitcher in baseball history to pitch four no-hitters in his career. Out-pitching Bob Hendley in the brilliant duel between the two left-handers, Koufax marked off his fourth no-hitter and surpassed the record for multiple no-hitters held by Bob Feller, Cy Young and Larry Corcoran.

A proposal to establish a state park at the site of a pre-historic buffalo jump south of Great Falls was outlined to the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee Wednesday at the Holiday Inn. The estimated $1,500 needed to purchase land and fence it is available from private sources, the committee was informed. The state Fish and Game Dept. has a budget for developing state parks. The site is on a county road on the first bench west of the highway between Ulm and Cascade. It is about seven miles from the Interstate. The Indian term for such a site is “piskun.”

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah – A park ranger rescue team set out Monday afternoon to intercept some 40 persons believed making their way down Zion Narrows, a gorge swept by a flash flood this weekend. Four hikers made their way through the knee-deep Virgin River Monday morning to report that the rest of those in the canyon are safe. They had been stranded more than 24 hours by the flood.

With the new model cars due to make their appearance soon, someone in the city may be attempting to build something to compete with them. Police on Sunday took reports of overnight thefts, which tend to support such a statement. Largest and most unusual “haul” of the night came to light when Walt Jensen, 402 10th St. N., reported theft of the left door from his blue 1960 sedan while the car was parked at his home. Mrs. Opie Huston, Bozeman, reported theft of both headlights from her car parked at 1012 8th Ave. South after 3 a.m., and Kenneth Miller, 2204 2nd Ave. South, told police he is missing a tire wheel and two hub caps from his car. Joseph Glide, 2026 6th Ave. N., told officers that during the night someone entered his 1965 car and stole two headrests from the front seat while the vehicle was in his driveway.

DENVER – Dedicating a university campus garden Friday, the nation’s First Lady said she hoped philanthropists would make “such wise and lasting donations to the beauty of the land and the joys of its inhabitants.” The President’s wife, who has been promoting the beautification of American cities, coined a new word that she said the nation should beware of — “uglification.” America’s cities are growing at a frightening rate, she noted, with 75 percent of the population now living on one percent of the land.

CUT BANK – Two men, Melvin H. Stevee, 44, and Frank Melvin Marsh, 44, both of Shelby, drowned Monday forenoon when their boat capsized while they were fishing on Mission Lake, 15 miles southwest of Cut Bank. Danny Marsh, 13, son of Frank, was rescued by Great Falls men who were in another boat. The boy said he remembers someone standing up to change a fishing lure, and the next thing he knew he was in the water, grabbing for a floating seat cushion. Life jackets in the boat were not in use.

NEW DEHLI, India – Pakistani troops and tanks took the offensive on the northern plains Friday, driving back invading Indian troops and dimming India’s optimism for a quick victory. New Delhi charged Pakistani planes raided a key airbase in eastern India.

100 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of Sept. 6, 1915

More than 30 applications are now on file with Secretary Lynn H. Fox of the YMCA association for rooms in the YMCA building dormitory, which will be ready for occupancy about Nov. 1, according to present plans. Rooms in the dormitory will be rented at from $10 to $12 a month with one or two exceptions where the room is considerably larger than the average, and the charge will be $14.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – It was announced here tonight that Major Gen. Frederick Funsten of the southern department is to issue orders placing practically the entire Rio Grande country in the Brownsville section in the hands of the U.S. army. It is understood that the army will devote its forces primarily to guarding the border, leaving the policing work in the interior, except when special troops are needed, to state and county officers. It is understood also that this order probably will work to prevent firing across the border from the Texas side by armed forces, except the U.S. troops.

Great Falls numbers many progressive Jews among her public-spirited citizens, according to the view of Rev. Will Arthur Dietrick, minister of the Congregational church, who has taken “Our Debt to the Jews” as his sermon subject for Sunday evening. “I chose this topic,” said he, “not only because it offers a good opportunity to take a rap at the wide-spread, senseless but persistent race prejudice which has followed the Hebrew people in every country of the world, but because the work of Newman and Singer in our own city, calls for public recognition which I propose to accord in this address.”

CHICAGO – Officials of the Friends of Peace met here today and discussed plans for a nationwide organization “for political and other action.” The contemplated organization, which was described by its founders as for “political action but not a political party,” will have as its aim “freedom of the seas” from England’s blockade of Germany, cessation of the exportation of war munitions by any means and influencing congressmen to legislation along the lines of the resolutions passed by the convention of the Friends of Peace which closed yesterday. The ambition of the promoters is to enroll 15,000,000 names.

Between 35 and 40 candidates for positions on the high school football team responded to the call of the coach on Wednesday. Others came out yesterday and there are still others who expect to make the try before many more days have passed. In the first scrimmage practice, which was short but stern, three elevens participated. The coach worked the men out to several positions in order to get a line on their ability and possibilities.

NEW YORK – Confirmation of the London report that a German submarine was sunk on Aug. 19 while shelling the British steamer Nicosia was received here today with the arrival of the steamer Lapland. It was also learned that the British patrol which sank the submarine flew an American flag while approaching the scene. Just before she was ready to open up with her guns, the American Flag fluttered down to her deck, and the British ensign was hoisted in its place.

KALISPELL – The discovery of the lost cabin sluice boxes and a valuable cache of gold, for which prospectors have searched all through the South Fork country for a number of years has just been made. News of the discovery reached Kalispell on Friday. The names of the lucky prospectors, the exact location and the amount of the “find” are withheld.

The present system of having the club owners appoint the official scorers is the chief cause of the evils that have crept into the official baseball reports. The official scorer may need the money that is paid for furnishing official returns to the secretary of the league, and if he does not please the players on the team, they are going to beg the club owner to appoint some other writer who will “listen to reason.” Consequently, the scorer who tries to be honest and score consistently stands small chance of being appointed official scorer in some cities.

STOCKETT – School opened here Monday with one of the largest enrollments ever known in Stockett. The eleventh grade has been installed this year, which will be a great advantage to the pupils who finished the tenth grade last year. A large number of pupils from Sand Coulee and the surrounding country are attending school here. There are eleven teachers.

WASHINGTON – The European war has placed the U.S. second among the maritime nations of the world. Acting Secretary Sweet of the Department of Commerce, in announcing that the American merchant marine now is second only to that of Great Britain, pointed out today that the increase might not be permanent. “Temporarily the tonnage of American shipping takes exceeding high rank, but the future of American shipping after the war is over will depend upon the maritime policy adopted by other actions as well as that of the U.S. Economic conditions arising out of the length and strain of the war will also be a great factor.”

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